Johnson was stunned for a moment, and was mysteriously taken inside by the boss, carefully took out a piece of gold from the safe, and a thought flashed in his mind, and said in surprise: "Yellow-lipped fish bladder!"

"Hehe, three catties and six taels, the treasure of the town store!" The boss said proudly: "Ten years ago, I bought an eighty-four pound yellow-lipped fish, right?"

SC Johnson took it, looked at it carefully, and saw this legendary top-quality ingredient for the first time. Also known locally as the yellow eel, it is worth millions, and the gells and scales are rumored to be able to treat infertility.

The whole body is full of treasures, the fish meat is at least 3,000 per catty, the swim bladder is the most valuable, and the price of a catty is 1.5 million, and there is no market for the treasure.

Especially for postpartum blood collapse, it is said that it has the miraculous effect of medicine to eliminate the disease, and the fish gelatin is taken off the body and dried for preservation. In ancient times, large families were used as heirlooms, which could save people's lives at critical times.

In April 2009, when two fishermen in Fuding City went out to sea, they picked up a dying 64-kilogram yellow-lipped fish, which a Wenzhou boss bought for 980,000 yuan and sold it to a Guangzhou boss for 1.25 million yuan. ”

"In February 2010, a yellow-lipped fish of more than 140 catties was caught in the South China Sea and bought by three Wenzhou bosses for 3.45 million yuan in Zhanjiang. ”

"In 2011, Pingtan fishermen caught a yellow-lipped fish with a body length of 1.93 meters and a weight of 150 catties, and sold it for 3 million yuan......"

The more the boss spoke, the more excited he became: "We call it goldfish here, what bullshit gold, a gram of fish maw tops dozens of grams of pure gold!"

Johnson nodded, it was indeed a treasure, and asked casually, "How much is willing to sell?"

The boss hurriedly took the swim bladder back, locked it back in the safe, and said solemnly: "Let's let you see if we have fate, we don't sell it for much money, keep it as an heirloom!"

SC Johnson shook his head, it didn't matter, it was understandable. Those who are destined to live in it, and they will not sell it if they are killed by themselves.

On the second floor, the chef prepares the ingredients and fills a large table. If you are bored eating by yourself, let the boss also sit down and chat while eating, which is considered to be a friend. Promise what seafood you need in the future, make a phone call, and deliver it to your door.

Cantonese people regard the freshness of ingredients as greater than the sky, which has given birth to the Huangsha Market, which has not stopped for a second since 1994. From the golden age of the Thirteen Elements of the Qing Dynasty, the tea enclosure and the Zhizhai Hall in the wind and moon of Chentang, and the Tao Taoju blind date......

There are also two major local food families: one is the Jiang family, which adheres to Guangdong, creates Taishi cuisine, and creates prosperous food for decades, and the representative figure is Jiang Kongyin Taishi Gong, the chief gourmand of Yangcheng.

One is the Tan family cuisine that was created in Guangdong and then went north to become the top official cuisine, famous in Beijing, and the representative figures are Tan Zongjun and his son.

Lu Wenfu's "Gourmet" said: Three generations of wealth know food, this is true.

All those masters who have a lot of silver in their hands and can make in the restaurant, even if they have abalone and bird's nest every night, none of them are real gourmets.

Throughout Yuan Mei, Li Yu, and Zhang Dai, people who can be called gourmets in history must first have cultural heritage, and more importantly, they must meet a good chef who is satisfied.

Singaporean wealthy businessman He Zhenya, a famous food writer in Southeast Asia, and his chef Liang Mei, usually even make fried eggs to be strict with himself, and all those that are not beautiful, raw, raw or overripe are eliminated.

The He family treats guests, the chef gets up early in the morning, makes a guest barbecued pork, it takes two hours, only the best piece of ribs is selected, regardless of time and cost, such barbecued pork is better than any star-rated restaurant.

Yuan Mei's chef Wang Xiaoyu regards cooking as a practice of medicine, showing his skills with a single diagnosis, and cooking according to the character of each piece of material, without pretension or indulgence, he is simply a philosopher.

Yuan Zicai often talked about the delicious food of his friends' houses, and Xiaoyu often went to observe it in person and performed disciple ceremonies. In this way, we can integrate and integrate the strengths of hundreds of schools to better serve the masters.

Taishi Jiang Kongyin, the last Jinshi, also worked as an agent of British American Tobacco, a wealthy party, opened his own farm, planted fruits, raised dairy cows, and cultivated flowers. Lychees In season, the Jiang family often appears in the garden early in the morning to pick lychees with dew drops to eat, because the sun turns sour as soon as it comes out.

Even the white chrysanthemums needed in the snake soup are specially taken care of by two gardeners, and the planting is a self-planted variety of crane dancing in the sky, which is the only one in China.

Tan Zongjun Hanlin, who is the same township as Jiang Taishi, is famous for his food among Beijing officials. The father and son of the Tan family do not get tired of eating, and they must eat the left forefoot when they eat bear paws, which is said to be only licked by bears and bears, and they are particularly fat.

Luzon yellow is a must-eat shark fin, and purple abalone is a must. A century ago, it was popular in the capital: the music world did not learn Tan Xinpei, the food industry did not praise the Tan family's cuisine, and even the common people knew that several Guangdong aunts and wives of the Tan family cooked good dishes.

Especially the generation of Tai Lifeng, the third aunt of Tan Yiqing, the son of Hanlin, has learned the tricks of famous chefs in Beijing, plus the Guangzhou cuisine of the gang, Tan's cuisine is recognized as the first private cuisine in Beijing, and even surpasses President Duan Qirui's family cuisine.

When Zhang Daqian was in Jinling, he missed the shark fin of the Tan family, and often sent people to the Tan family to buy the yellow braised shark fin that had just come out of the pot, and immediately flew it back and served it on the table.

Wang Jingwei went to the capital and invited celebrities to a banquet in the Shang Zhen Mansion, and wanted to invite the Tan family to a meeting, but Tan Yingqing refused. Later, I could only compromise and ask the Tan family to make a dish of yellow braised shark fin and a dish of oyster sauce purple abalone, and the secretary drove the express mail.

Legend has it that Tan Yingqing's original words of refusal were: Out of the Tan family, you can't cook Tan's dishes.

If the private dish goes out, can it still be called a home dish?

Lifeng, a little woman, actually can't even flip a spoon, and she hasn't even learned to stir-fry, because Tan's dishes are mostly high-end dishes that need to be heated. The general chef is familiar with all kinds of tips to make food look good and delicious, such as making bird's nest with alkali, whole beef with borax, people don't know anything.

I only know how to cook honestly, the cutting must be ruthless, the heat must be sufficient, and the procedure must be accurate. It's only in your own kitchen that you can do that.

In the 20s of the last century, the Tan family gradually declined. Tan Zhangqing is still hopelessly obsessed with food, and he does not hesitate to sell the giant mansion in Picai Hutong and rent the house of the Guangdong Guild Hall instead.

In the name of the official eunuch's family, the daily expenses are stretched, and if you want to maintain the food, you have to find another way. A whim in the dilemma: why not eat?

Charging for a banquet and selling Tan's dishes may be a shortcut to profit.

began to quietly host banquets, both to make money and be decent, never listed for business, only at home banquets, so it is called a family kitchen banquet.

Start with regular customers, and start to be a little dodgy, and you can't wipe your face. Later, the reputation spread, and the raw customers couldn't push it off, so they could only get a 20% discount for regular customers.

As far as the most expensive swallow wing seats are concerned, the high-end restaurants such as Chunhua Building and Dongxing Building are only 16 yuan for a seat, and the Tan family offers a sky-high price of 100 yuan, and only regular customers can get a 20% discount, which is 80 yuan.

At that time, the ministers of the capital were in vogue of food, and the bribe-taking parliamentarians were even more spent drinking, and Tan Jiacai was famous in Beijing because of fate, and the more expensive the more mysterious, and soon swept the upper class society, and was chased by the powerful with heavy money.

Reservations are made three days in advance, then a week, then a month, or even three months.

Taishi cuisine is similar, it was in the limelight in Guangzhou back then, and only Taishi Ma was the first to look forward to the major restaurants. Every time the Jiang family comes out with a new dish, the major restaurants immediately pirate the copies, and attract diners in the name of Taishi.

But all the new dishes with the word etheric history, once launched, were very popular and all the rage. Whether it is military and political dignitaries, Chinese and foreign envoys, Yin business tycoons, and reckless heroes from all walks of life, they are all proud of the banquet in Taishi.

Walt, an American gourmet, said: If you kill a chicken and don't have the ability to cook it, that chicken is unjustly killed.

Wang Xiaoyu said: The celery made by a good cook is definitely better than the bear's paw made by a bad cook, and the difference lies in whether there is any intention.

Even when Xing Ye flew in the air in the god of food to make flowers and silk, he also said that he had to do it with his own heart.

Johnson understands all these truths, but the world is so big, and he is still young. When you are old and can't walk anymore, raise a few good cooks and enjoy food at home.

That's life!

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